Visionaries

JENNIFER KEMARRE MARTINIELLO
Scientists seeking to understand the layers place and its human history sink deep
extraction shafts through layers of earth to bring up sample cores for analysis. What if,
instead of compacted layers of earth, those sample cores brought up the shapes and
sounds of the voices of that place’s first peoples, their stories, songs and ceremonies.
Each of the Voice Cores in this series seeks to extract the shapes and resonances of
the First Voices for each of the places named, it’s vowels, consonants, syllables – each
captured in the colours and forms of the natural environment of each place.
The Voice Cores represent an extension of both conceptual and technical elements in
my work. In my series of hot blown glass Bush Flowers bicornuals and dillibags I created
murrine from complex hot sculpted glass canes to emulate native flora. In the Voice
Cores I have experimented further with this process, seeking to invoke not just purely
physical forms, but to step beyond the physical to invoke the metaphysical, that which
is ephemeral, the shapes and forms of the first languages that existed in those places in
the distant past. At the same time I am attempting to fold the past and present in the
timeline of each place together through the use of the native colours and forms of those
places as they are today – ‘Always was, Always will be…’
Jennifer Kemarre Martiniello, Voice Cores #1 -
#6, 2017, hot blown glass with murrine, 590 x
650 x 650mm. Photo Credit: Art Atelier.
L-R: $2800, $2,800, $2,600, $2,800, $2,800,
$2,600 or $16,000 (set)